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Well… it’s been a whirlwind couple weeks! I just finished up the work part of my tour with some timebank stuff then a fun show, a MidMichigan TimeBank benefit, in Lansing. Now I’m about to start a family vacation so I want to post about as much of it as possible before freeing my brain…

I am sad to say that Richard Rockefeller died in a plane crash yesterday. Richard was a great friend, supporter, organizer, thinker behind timebanking, among many other great things he did with his life. Our time on the Board of TimeBanks USA overlapped briefly, during which I came to know him as a brilliant, thoughtful,…

Hello again, just briefly for now… Check it out! Scott Murto of the Lansing Michigan MAN pilot site (spearheaded by MidMichigan Timebank) has written a great post in the Daily Kos. Our first MAN mention in an article. And a beautiful one at that! Building New Economic Paradigms: What’s Happening, That Vision Thing, and You…

Hello, First, some great news! We received a grant from RSF Seed Fund, a very competitive national grant. We’re very proud to be recognized by such a great organization. And we’re extremely happy to report that we have received core funding from the Kailo Fund, to support our core operations through November. This is wonderful….

Hello Progress on developing Mutual Aid Networks is ramping up nicely. I’ve been saying lately that the first half of 2014 is my time to Go Big or Go Home. What that means is that the job of shepherding these into existence is much too big for one person (with bits of help from others…

Hello Last Wednesday we held our March Builders Workshop, Increasing Capacity in Your Organization. This was geared toward helping our timebank’s organization members to better connect with each other and timebank members at large, in order to fulfill their mission as robustly as possible while facing the same funding shortages common to most of us…

This year’s Builders Workshops will be more focused on the work session piece. Our first workshop was geared toward helping us to develop software teams. While we had a fairly small group of participants, they represented a wide variety of skills and interests, so we made some good progress! We’re viewing the work as four…

Hello! On Tuesday March 18 we held our very first discussion among potential MAN pilot sites. The enthusiasm was fantastic and I’m very excited about the possibilities. Our slides are here. Notes are here. April 3 we hold our next Allied Coop meeting to move forward more on formalizing that as our first Mutual Aid…

Hello Today Sina, Selena and I met with Madison Mayor Paul Soglin to talk about the Allied Coop and ask for his support. It was a really friendly, fruitful, concise and constructive meeting. That’s nice! The mayor offered to initiate a meeting with city staff who can help us learn to better navigate city systems,…

Today marks the birth of Mutual Aid Networks! We just sent our Articles of Incorporation and it’s official! Preston Austin and I are the signers and we incorporated at the address of my coffeehouse, Mother Fool’s, where Preston and I first met and had the conversations that eventually led us to this point. In fact,…

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